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Recent content in Books on Florian HeidenreichHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 23 Aug 2017 18:39:25 +0100Deep Work by Cal Newporthttps://fheidenreich.de/books/deep-work/
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:39:25 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/deep-work/Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
„Although he had many patients who relied on him, Jung was not shy about taking time off.“ Deep work, though a burden to prioritize, was crucial for his goal of changing the world.
„If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels.Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emersonhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/self-reliance/
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:37:00 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/self-reliance/In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.Meditations by Marcus Aureliushttps://fheidenreich.de/books/meditations/
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:28:48 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/meditations/It is not objects and events but the interpretations we place on them that are the problem. Our duty is therefore to exercise stringent control over the faculty of perception, with the aim of protecting our mind from error.
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.
The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Wattshttps://fheidenreich.de/books/wisdom-insecurity/
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:25:36 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/wisdom-insecurity/I have always been fascinated by the law of reversed effort. Sometimes I call it the “backwards law.” When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink you float. When you hold your breath you lose it.
For if all is relative, if life is a torrent without form or goal in whose flood absolutely nothing save change itself can last, it seems to be something in which there is “no future” and thus no hope.Essentialism by Greg McKeownhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/essentialism/
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:22:17 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/essentialism/The basic value proposition of Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.
It is about pausing constantly to ask, “Am I investing in the right activities?”
Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean just doing less for the sake of less either.When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrönhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/when-things-fall-apart/
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:17:22 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/when-things-fall-apart/Fear is a universal experience.
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness.
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear.The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Mansonhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/not-giving-fucks/
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:11:35 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/not-giving-fucks/The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important.
The Feedback Loop from Hell.
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.
The Backwards Law – the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place.Flinch by Julien Smithhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/flinch/
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:08:43 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/flinch/This book is about how to stop flinching. It’s about facing pain.
The X is the flinch. The flinch is your real opponent, and information won’t help you fight it. It’s behind every unhappy marriage, every hidden vice, and every unfulfilled life. Behind the flinch is pain avoidance, and dealing with pain demands strength you may not think you have.
Behind every act you’re unable to do, fear of the flinch is there, like a puppet master, steering you off course.Show Your Work by Austin Kleonhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/show-your-work/
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:05:58 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/show-your-work/You don’t really find an audience for your work; they find you. But it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable. I think there’s an easy way of putting your work out there and making it discoverable while you’re focused on getting really good at what you do.
Brian Eno refers to “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holidayhttps://fheidenreich.de/books/ego-enemy/
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:43:45 +0100https://fheidenreich.de/books/ego-enemy/Ego is an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition.
Ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and retaining your success.
Practice seeing yourself with a little distance, cultivating the ability to get out of your own head. Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote.